BLOODLINES
by Gerald Hammond
Bloodlines ($20.95; Feb. 17; 224 pp.; 0-312-18052-7): Would kennel-keeper and occasional sleuth (Mad Dogs and Scotsmen, 1996, etc.) John Cunningham run down another man in his car to protect the bloodline of his spaniel Horace? When unlikable Ben Garnet is left for dead soon after accusing Horace of impregnating Cleo, his own prize spaniel, John has a chance to sample Highland justice from the other side of the stream.